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Weston-super-Mare is a tourist destination, with its long sandy beach, Helicopter Museum, [84] Weston Museum, Grand Pier and seasonal Wheel of Weston. [85] A 2009 survey by Visit England placed the Grand Pier in the top ten free attractions in England. [ 86 ]
Weston-super-Mare Association Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.Nicknamed "The Seagulls", [1] the club is affiliated to the Somerset County Football Association and are competing in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football.
North Somerset contains the parliamentary constituencies of Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset. A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport ; English Heritage takes the leading ...
The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Weston-super-Mare Municipal Borough Council and remained the local seat of government after the enlarged Woodspring District Council was formed in 1974. [6] A large modern red-brick extension was built behind the town hall for use by Woodspring District Council in the 1970s. [2]
Weston-super-Mare Town Council is a parish council serving Weston-super-Mare in the United Kingdom. The council is responsible for providing the following services: allotments, bus shelters, cemeteries, dog waste bins, noticeboards, parks, play areas and green spaces, public toilets, and youth services. [4]
Weston Museum was founded in 1861 by William Mable. A shoemaker by trade, Mable came to Weston-super-Mare from London prior to the 1851 census. [3] In 1851 the Reverend R Warre instigated an archaeological investigation of the camp of Celtic Britons on Worlebury Hill. [3]
Tropicana. The Tropicana, formerly a Lido site that once contained an outdoor swimming pool, is located in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England.It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, on the southern section of the seafront.
The Grand Pier is a pleasure pier in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, situated on the Bristol Channel approximately 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Bristol.It opened in 1904 and has been Listed Grade II since 1983. [1]